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I feel like a lot of the Thomas defenders that I see online seem to get stuck at the starting point of criticism— the “there’s no finale coming, or even new SaSi content” criticism.

Which! It’s valid criticism! But defenders go “well, Thomas is human! You can’t expect him to be a content mill!”

Again! Fair rebuttal! However, the Finale Is Never Coming criticism is a symptom of the larger problem at hand. And the problem that I personally have with Thomas is that he has no regard in setting a clear path of communication nor boundaries.

There’s no communication with his fans or his patreon. And no. Insta stories that say “Editing! 🫶” And selfies with the caption “Filming 😻” are not communication, that’s stalling.

There’s no communication with the people he hires. Why are animations getting paid cents or not at all for their work. Why are employees learning their jobs are over via tweets and YouTube community posts. He doesn’t care about the staff he has, or about the freelance he employs and it’s shown through how he treats them, how they now have to dance around how they talk about their experiences online because they’re afraid of legal repercussions.

Thomas has cultivated a deeply parasocial bond with his fan base, one that he is exploiting for money, attention and defense, because you can’t even comment under his posts politely asking for a more in depth update without getting a victimized response from him or a fan rabidly clawing into their screen to protect their favorite Internet personality.

And that’s why the criticism is so harsh. Because having a fan base like this and treating your business like this is dangerous and toxic.

#sanders sides #not countdown #thomas sanders #sanders sides critical #thomas sanders critical #ts critical #ts criticism #thomas sanders criticism #thomas sanders crit #ts crit

oriocookie

i’m crying laughing

#im screaming

While im glad that some money from the Could be Gayer drop is going towards trans charities, the 30% of profits is just a bit of a slap in the face. Couldn’t have shelled out that extra 20%?

#sanders sides #not countdown #thomas sanders #sanders sides critical #thomas sanders critical #ts critical #ts criticism #thomas sanders criticism #thomas sanders crit #ts crit

whereisstevethestove

to be fair….creation and consumption are very different experiences, writing that fic you want to see does not have the same effect as finding and reading that fic (especially if you’ve never written fic before, cause then you’re setting yourself up for frustration and disappointment) ((I could not imagine the frustration I would feel if I had my adult taste and self awareness but with my 12 year old self’s skill when trying to write something)) (((well I kinda can once a year I nearly cry over my inability to draw))). Also I just didn’t get a bashing vibe from that post tbh

Calling it “consumption” tells me everything I need to know about you

whereisstevethestove

I would rather you write with the skills of a 12 year old until your writing is “good enough” than have you come online and whine and bitch about the fact there isn’t enough fanfic of a caliber you like for you to consume

to be fair….creation and consumption are very different experiences, writing that fic you want to see does not have the same effect as finding and reading that fic (especially if you’ve never written fic before, cause then you’re setting yourself up for frustration and disappointment) ((I could not imagine the frustration I would feel if I had my adult taste and self awareness but with my 12 year old self’s skill when trying to write something)) (((well I kinda can once a year I nearly cry over my inability to draw))). Also I just didn’t get a bashing vibe from that post tbh

Calling it “consumption” tells me everything I need to know about you

Totally fair to have fic preferences however you do lose me when you bitch about something not existing and also don’t write fic. Like that is loser behavior

#fandom wank #‘how come no one writes fic anymore’#idk man have you considered that you are the problem

ashoss

im desperate

#<- prev more like hey waiter get me a sandwich with no toxic waste inside please #<- prev have you considered picking up a pen yourself because i noticed you ignored that tag #be the change you wanna see instead of basing people making free fanfic ????

tstwitterupdates

TS tweet 29/5/26

NEW Could Be Gayer 2026 merch is here for Pride month, in the form of baseball tees and stickers! 30% of every purchase this year will go to benefit the Transgender Law Center!

whereisstevethestove

And the verdict is: Designed in Canva !

ashoss

im desperate

#At this point just pick up the pen yourself bro 😭#hey waiter get me a Sandwich with nothing! type filtering

whereisstevethestove

Pride month is just around the corner, and so is the could be gayer merch drop.

Do we think that Thomas will-

Underpay some poor artist to design it and not give them royalties

Design it himself in canva free trial (badly)

Use AI to design it

Drop the old designs and gaslight us into thinking it’s new

Not do a “could be gayer” drop at all

Come out as bald (see results)

Voting ended onJun 3

peachdoxie

learned today that nearly a quarter of all fics on AO3 tagged with "Dissection" are Danny Phantom fics jfkasjdfkljasdfljasd

peachdoxie

nearly a quarter of all fics tagged with "Vivisection" are also DP fics

jackdaw-sprite

yep.

anguishedlurker

Commenter pointing out that most of the batman ones are probably crossovers (with Danny Phantom) is correct!

Vivisection with crossovers excluded (straight down to batman bc it's interesting info to see 17);

And dissection (batman was not listed so you get top 5);

While filtering for crossovers ONLY gets this for vivisection:

And this for dissection;

In conclusion: we sure do have a lot of dissection and vivisection either way.

jackdaw-sprite

#what the fuck is happening in dp why's there so much vivisection#not upset about it but I am intrigued via @finch-the-foolish

So the thing you have to understand is in the show Danny's parents are mad scientists. And not only are they mad scientists, they're mad scientists set on studying ghosts. They don't think ghosts are people. They know ghosts experience pain and don't care, and regularly threaten to tear Phantom apart molecule by molecule:

^ said in front of Danny-their-son

And then these exchanges, following an identity reveal to the whole world. The reveal gets undone via reality hijinks later, but we still get this:

^ His sister Jazz gets it.

And you see in these screenshots something else really important: They do not know that their son Danny is the superhero ghost Danny Phantom.

They love him! Every time they learn he's Danny Phantom in the show, they decide loving him is more important than the fact that he's a ghost.

Buuut.

This whole dynamic opens up a whole beautiful rainbow of angst fics, doesn't it?

What if they kill Danny before ever realizing it's him? What if killing him is what reveals it's him? What if they capture him and vivisect him and he can't reveal himself to them the whole time? What if they get far enough that it kills the human part of him and he can never give them solid evidence what happened to their beloved son?

What if he tries revealing himself to them after he realizes what they're about to do, and they don't believe him?

Because there's the other direction you can take this. A lot of people in the phandom were queer teenagers in the aughts, when the question of 'will my parents accept me even though they hate what I am?' was a very personally relevant question.

Which means you get fics where Danny reveals himself, and his parents don't accept him.

Where not only do they hate ghosts more than they love him, but they start treating him like they treat any other ghost.

And that includes experimenting on him.

ANYWAY! That's not even the only set of characters in the show that are big on experimenting on ghosts! There's Vlad, who clones Danny and maybe island of doctor moreaus a bunch of animal ghosts together into monstrosities, and there's the GIW, a Men in Black parody. Naturally, they want to capture Danny and take him into a secret government lab for lots and lots of painful experiments.

#I understand why dp is there #why the FUCK is SANDERS SIDES in the vivisection tag ???